TEST BANK QUESTIONS - EXAM 1 MATERNAL NEWBORN,

TEST BANK QUESTIONS - EXAM #1 MATERNAL NEWBORN,

CHAPTER 25: THE HIGH-RISK NEWBORN, CHAPTER 24:

NEWBORN NUTRITION AND FEEDING NCLEX, CHAPTER 23:

NURSING CARE OF THE NEWBORN AND FAMILY PERRY:

MATERNAL CHILD NURSING CARE, 6TH EDITION, CHAPTER 22…

chapter 1 A nurse manager is evaluating staff members on their cultural competence. Which action best demonstrates this characteristic?

• Attends workshops on cultural diversity and health practices
• Participates in community health events with minority

populations

• Plans care with the family members within their cultural beliefs
• Uses family members as interpreters to make them feel

important

• Plans care with the family members within their cultural beliefs

chapter 1 A patient wishes to use complementary therapy when managing a chronic health condition.Which action by the nurse is most appropriate?

• Advise the patient that stopping medical treatment may cause

it to worsen.

• Inform the patient that there are no complementary therapies

for this condition.

• Investigate herbs that can be substituted for prescription drugs.
• Suggest the patient add massage therapy to the medical

regimen.

• Suggest the patient add massage therapy to the medical

regimen.

Complementary therapy is nontraditional medical treatment used together with 1 / 4

conventional medical treatment. Adding massage to the medical regimen is an example of using complementary therapy.chapter 1 A nurse is working with a family that uses multiple complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) modalities. What action by the nurse is best?

• Allow the family to continue these practices as desired.
• Assess how these practices reflect religious beliefs.
• Inform the family that most of these practices do not work.
• Provide evidence-based information about the therapies.
• Provide evidence-based information about the therapies.

A nurse wishes to improve their cultural sensitivity while working with patients. Which action by the nurse would best indicate progress toward this goal?

• Demonstrate good knowledge of different cultural health beliefs
• Effectively respond to the needs of people of different cultures
• Interact respectfully with patients who have differing health

beliefs

• Recognize that they will never be the expert in other cultures
• Interact respectfully with patients who have differing health

beliefs

The nurse working with individuals or families who use CAM practices should respect the beliefs, values, and desires of the patient. The nurse should encourage families to make decisions regarding CAM practices based on evidence and research into their effects. The nurse can best assist in this by providing and discussing information Chapter 1 A nurse is caring for a patient from a culture with which the nurse 2 / 4

is totally unfamiliar. What action by the nurse will best promote effective communication?

• Call for a professional interpreter to translate information.
• Pattern voice tone and eye contact after the patient's

behaviors.

• Talk slowly and deliberately using simple language and cues.
• Use nonverbal communication as much as possible with the

patient.

• Pattern voice tone and eye contact after the patient's

behaviors.

In the situation where the nurse is unfamiliar with the patient's culture, the nurse should pattern verbal and nonverbal communication after the patient's own style.chapter 1 A nurse manager expects all employees to be patient advocates.Which nursing action best demonstrates this nursing role?

• Arranging a family-physician conference to clarify treatment

plans

• Encouraging treatment options based on personal beliefs and

values

• Giving contact information for governmental assistance

agencies

• Working on a political campaign to reduce poverty in the state
• Arranging a family-physician conference to clarify treatment

plans

In the advocate role, the nurse should promote patient-/family- centered care and work to provide the patient with more control, power, and self- determination in the health-care setting. The nurse who arranges a family-physician 3 / 4

conference to clarify treatment plans is advocating for the patient.chapter 1 A patient and family have the nursing diagnosis of impaired verbal communication secondary to a language barrier. What action by the patient/family would best indicate that short-term goals for this diagnosis have been met?

• Able to communicate long-term desires for health of the patient
• Demonstrates comprehension by head nodding and saying

"yes"

• States understanding of condition and treatment via an

interpreter

• Understands how nonverbal communication varies between

cultures

• States understanding of condition and treatment via an

interpreter

For a language barrier, using a professional interpreter is not only the best way to manage communication, it is also legally required. The best short- term goal for the patient and family is to obtain understanding of the patient's illness and treatment and state, through the interpreter, that this is the case.chapter 1 A nurse is working with family members who have been striving to improve their functioning as a family unit. What behavior would suggest to the nurse that the family is meeting its goals?

• The children are in multiple activities to develop talents.
• The desire to be understood guides most communication.
• Family members gave up some activities to eat dinner together

on most nights.

• The parents have a strong desire for the children to succeed.
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